Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1900 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

WEDNESDAY. Geo. Barcus is in Lowell on business today. Mrs. G- W. Goff is spending a few days’ in Chicago. P. L. Bush of Brookston is in our city on business today. W. B. Austin is transacting business today in Lafayette. Barley Parks of Remington is visiting his brother, W. S. Parke, today. >J. F. Bruner is at Valparaiso, today, attending the K. cf P. district meeting. • The three year old son of Chas Burbage 7 miles west of town is quite sick with sore throat. , The seven year old son of Alf Donelly, north of town, is recovering from a bad attack of croup. Miss Irma Kannal entertained thirty-two of her friends at progressive cinch Tuesday evening. A. R. Bis filing and attorney W. H. Parkison have goue to Logansport today, on legal business. Geo. O. Bales has begun work on a new and yery large lumber shed, at his lumber yard, near the depot. Addison Parkison is convalescing from his recent sickness and will be able to be out in a few days. Moses Leopold left today for Kentland, where he will assist his brother Simon Leopold, in his store there. H. N. Jacks has gone to Indianapolis to visit until Sunday, there and with his father-in-law Wm. Pride, at Knightstown. The coldest temperature of the present cold spell, as shown by Bruner’s U. S. thermometer, was 9 degrees zero, Monday morning. Miss Gail Wasson of Northwestern University accompanied by her mother, returned home from Evanston today to recuperate from her recent sickness. Mrs. E O. Gunyan and children north of town, left today for their new home on a farm near Frankfort. Mr. Gunyan having preceded them there last Monday. Mrs. S. O. Lang of Surrey, returned home today, after a few days’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Lem Huston, wno has been sick but new coevalescing. In one of the several local notices of the Methodist ladies coming big dinner the day was erroniously given as Saturday. The others which gave Thursday, gave the correct date. C. P. Wright reports that his well drillers struck a powerful flow of oil on the J. V. Parkison farm, at Pleasant Ridge, today, at the depth of 50 feet. He will bore deeper however. Mrs. Elizabeth Joyce, who was buried at Vincennets, Tuesday, was a daughter of an actual revolutionary war soldier. There are but very few left in Indiana, and Mrs. W. E, Moore, of near Rensselaer. is one of those few. c This time a ruction has broken out among the cadets at Orchard Lake, Mich , Military Academy, at which T. -J. McCoy’s son, Taylor is a student. According to the newspaper reports, the trouble is over an unpopular superintendent Col. Rogers, whose dismissal the cadets are said to insist upon. Ii is also s tated that the boys claim that they do not get enough to eat, Monday, at Monticello, John Murray was granted a divorce from his wife, Daisy, on scriptural grounds. He wag also given the custody of his five young children. The divorced and disgraced woman is the one who, a month or two ago, deserted hei husband and children and elopet with an unprincipled young sporl of Monticello, named Earl Johnsonbaugb, and who* was known tc many Rensselaer people from frequent visits here.

I The Rensselaer fire alarm was soumled this forenoon, on a telephone message from St- Joseph’s , Collgee. One of their big chimneys was burning out, and it got so hot and threw out so much smoke and cinders, that the whole roof was thought to be on fire. The harmless nature of the fire was soon discovered, but not until the city fire department bad made a start with their hose carts. Edward Swanson of Hammond Ind, a snake charmer at Fort Valley, Ga. last Saturday, was bitten by a hnge rattler and died. The snake had been recently received from Florida, and its fangs were thought to have been taken out. By public subscription a coffin was secured, and Swanson’s body was buried there Monday. His mother, Mrs. Nellie Swanson, lives at Hammond. Calvin T. Faris, who has been on the R. B. Porter farm, 4 miles east of town, for several years past is preparing to move to Nebraska, in a short time. He purchased a farm near VVilsonville, in 9ia state, some time ago, and now in tends to move upon it and make it his permanent home. It is no experiment with him as he lived there a number of years, and Mrs. Faris’ relativee also all live there, and have for quite a long time. Lew Hefferlin’s team, from Barkley tp., got scared at something, Tuesday morning, ( and broke loose from where they were tied, near Babcock’s elevator. They ran at a rapid rate, hitched to a top-buggy, down through town and then turned east on the Pleasant Ridge gravel road. When we last heard from them, they were beyond the De’os Thompson farm, 5 miles east of town, and were still running. The buggy was still running on nn even keel and the cushions still in the seats.